“This bill provides protections to businesses and peace of mind to farmers, but more importantly, it ensures we can remain competitive in the global economy.”

The reauthorization, which Congress has recently taken up every two years, specifically calls for an analysis of the effects of moving the Corps’s civil work out of the Pentagon and into another agency or to a completely new entity.

It also offsets the cost of newly authorized water infrastructure efforts by deauthorizing idle projects.

The Senate is expected to take up its version of the legislation this summer. The upper chamber’s Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved the bill last month.

While the House bill garnered bipartisan support at a time of heightened tensions in Congress over other policy issues like immigration, it received some pushback from the White House. In a statement of administration policy published Tuesday, the White House said “the bill could be improved.”

The White House, in particular, took issue with the number of analyses and projects the legislation would greenlight.

“Given the large number of authorized projects that have not been started or completed, new project and study authorizations should be limited to those most likely to provide high economic or environmental returns to the Nation,” the statement said.

The bill's passage in the House comes as Trump's sweeping infrastructure proposal appears to have stalled in Congress. Republican leadership has not shown much enthusiasm for a large overhaul of U.S. public works.